Bowstreet to Power Energy Industry 'Business Web'.Business/Technology Editors LYNNFIELD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 13, 2000 Software innovator Excelergy will use Bowstreet(TM) Business Web Factory to help energy retailers and other clients mass-produce custom portals and retain customers Excelergy Inc., a leading developer of energy industry software, is using the Bowstreet(TM) Business Web Factory to create a business web interconnecting thousands of North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. energy retailers and their customers. With Bowstreet, Excelergy is transforming its software to modular web-based services and proliferating them to clients and partners over the Internet. Excelergy's clients - typically energy retailers throughout North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. - can acquire, combine, customize and deploy these web services (1) Loosely, any online service delivered over the Web. Such usage appears in articles from non-technical sources, but not in IT-oriented publications, because definition #2 below describes the correct use of the term. to create customized portals on a massive scale, all without programming. These portals, akin to a "myYahoo" for each energy consumer, serve individual energy buying needs for customers ranging from individual households to multinational corporations
"We've made huge investments in developing our applications. Bowstreet lets us extract even more value from them by turning them into web services," said Philippe Frangules, Excelergy's vice president of e-commerce. "Our clients now have tools for building customer loyalty in deregulated energy markets. Through Bowstreet, our clients can create combinations of information and services which completely satisfy consumers' energy needs so they don't have to look at the competition." Specifically, the Bowstreet Business Web Factory is helping Excelergy convert its energy management applications into web services, XML-based application components that interoperate with any technology system without expensive custom coding. Through its new B2B (Business to Business) Refers to one business communicating with or selling to another. See B2B e-commerce, B2C and B2G. B2B - business to business portal, EnergyMarketplace, Excelergy will offer its clients Bowstreet-powered web services for energy commodity pricing, procurement consulting, price comparisons, reverse auctions, weather and billing information. Excelergy chose Bowstreet over competitors because the Business Web Factory can create personalized per·son·al·ize tr.v. per·son·al·ized, per·son·al·iz·ing, per·son·al·iz·es 1. To take (a general remark or characterization) in a personal manner. 2. To attribute human or personal qualities to; personify. web sites on a massive scale and was more adaptable to Excelergy's technical needs. "Excelergy's business web demonstrates how to quickly and exponentially increase return on a technology investment," said Bob Crowley For the software, see . For the computer specialist, see . Bob Crowley (born in Cork, Ireland) is a theatre director, scenic and costume designer. He is the brother of director John Crowley. , president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Bowstreet. "There aren't too many markets bigger or more ingrained in our lives than energy, and Bowstreet's plug-and-play e-commerce is giving Excelergy's clients a revolutionary way to reach every individual corner of that market." About Excelergy Excelergy delivers complete software technology to utilities and retail energy companies operating in restructuring global energy markets. Excelergy's innovative suite of EDI- and XML-enabled products includes the Excelergy ABP 1. (networking) ABP - Alternating bit protocol. 2. ABP - Microsoft Address Book Provider. (TM) 3000 customer billing and information system, the Excelergy eXACT(TM) family of business-to-business transaction management solutions, and the web-based Energymarketplace energy portal. Headquartered in Lexington, MA, Excelergy has additional US offices in Santa Monica Santa Monica (săn`tə mŏn`ĭkə), city (1990 pop. 86,905), Los Angeles co., S Calif., on Santa Monica Bay; inc. 1886. Tourism and retailing are important, and the city has motion-picture, biotechnology, and software industries. , CA and Atlanta, GA. Its European headquarters are located in Bristol, England. More information is available at www.excelergy.com. About Bowstreet Bowstreet provides XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. infrastructure for plug-and-play e-commerce. Bowstreet's Business Web Factory uses change-automation technology to create business webs: fluid, interconnected collections of web services from multiple providers that come together dynamically over the Internet. Bowstreet's solutions enable companies to sell new products and services, create new channels of distribution and develop new business initiatives at a fraction of the time and cost of many of today's approaches. For more information, visit www.bowstreet.com or call 781-586-7100. Bowstreet is a trademark of Bowstreet, Inc. All other company names and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies or owners. |
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